Judges 8:25-27

New Catholic Bible

²⁵ They answered, “We would be glad to give them to you.” They spread out a garment, and each man threw his earrings from the plunder onto it. ²⁶ The weight of the golden earnings he had asked for was one thousand, seven hundred golden shekels, not counting the ornaments, the necklaces, the purple garments that had been worn by the kings of Midian, and the chains that had been on the necks of their camels.

²⁷ Gideon had the gold made into an ephod^[a] which he placed in Ophrah, his hometown. All of Israel prostituted itself by worshiping it there, and it became a snare to Gideon and his household.